The friends who are always there for you. Devote your time to them, instead of aimlessly trying to spend time with people who make you worry that they won’t return your texts, or reciprocate your affection.
Abuse is abuse and only you have the ability to end it by walking away and taking back the power she’s been holding over your head since the day she renamed you “burden.”
I don’t want to get my hopes up by imagining what it would be like to marry a certain man, and then end up getting my heart broken when it doesn’t actually happen.
To those who are “almosts” or have many, don’t give up. Your almosts are practices, bringing you that much closer to what you may not know you want.
Many people spend their lives re-creating their first familial relationships, often to their own detriment.
My father was not nor is he now, a monster. He was however, with me, extremely cold and emotionally unavailable.
Contrary to popular opinion, asking for help does not make you helpless or powerless.
“My eldest’s father went out to get diapers & never came back, that was it, she was 2 weeks old.”
We can become addicted to the highs and lows of dangerous romantic relationships in a way that makes a break-up from a toxic person similar to rehab from a destructive drug addiction.
When you feel lonely most of the time. If the relationship makes you feel lonely, then what’s the point? If you can’t share your life with the person you’re with, then you’re not in a real relationship.
“When I was 8, my dad tried to kill me, my mom and sister. A month later, my dad would go on to commit suicide.”
I’m aware this list is pragmatic and often brutal so don’t say I didn’t warn you.
“It was sheer passion. I had been stuck in a dead relationship for far too long.”
“Breakups hurt, no matter what. It is like grieving a death. But waking the dead won’t bring the person back.”
There’s always one relationship that effects you so deeply that you can simply never forget it.
I’m going to be frank, these are some of the most insane stories I have ever heard in my entire life. They are crazier and, in a very few cases, sadder than anything you could make up. They are also utterly fascinating.
